The Online Lower Minnesota River Watershed District News, October 2004

Nicols Fen photos

Views of Nicols Fen. Top to bottom:

  • View of the fen on a cloudy day.

  • Boy Scout volunteers on a restoration project pack in to the fen.

  • After they helped eradicate invasive reed canary grass (with herbicides), the Scouts planted native carex stricta or hummock sedge.

  • The red-stem aster, a native fen plant.

  • High quality fibrous peat on the left — and, on the right, degraded peat with reed canary grass root mass.

(Photos: Mark Cleveland, DNR.)